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Opening Teaser

In his room, Jesse is busy strumming away at his guitar, when Michelle enters, wanting to play a game with him. He decides to play his "laughing game", where one has to make the other laugh (she has to make him laugh, he has to make her laugh, and vice versa) and whoever laughs first loses. They then play another game where they make hideous faces at each other, and he's able to replicate the one where she sticks her tongue out while grasping both sides of her lip.

Synopsis

It is the night of a college reunion for Joey and Danny—the reunion of Chi Sigma Sigma, the fraternity that they were members of a decade earlier.

Joey and Danny remember that the fraternity burned Danny's fraternity jacket when Danny messed up and unintentionally allowed a sorority, Lambda Tau Delta, to steal a stuffed seal that was Chi Sigma Sigma's mascot. The Lambda Tau Delta girls had tackled Danny to the ground and taken the seal. Since the Lambda Tau Delta girls are also having a reunion, Joey and Danny see an opportunity to get the seal back from them.

D.J. and Kimmy Gibbler accidentally break the TV while trying to take it upstairs, thus Danny tells them that they are not allowed to see each other for three weeks. D.J. is upset about the punishment and berates Danny for trying to break up their friendship, before Danny sends D.J. upstairs to her and Stephanie's room, not knowing that Stephanie is behind him, translating his speech into sign language. Later, Danny and Joey head off to the reunion while D.J. stays home to watch Stephanie and Michelle. The two older girls play the cup game (see Quotes & Trivia), and Michelle is anxious to learn it. However, even after explaining how it works (see Quotes), D.J. decides that it is too complex and too complicated for Michelle to learn, so she decides to teach her something simpler instead, such as the patty-cake rhyme.

In their attempt to get the seal back, Danny and Joey disguise themselves as women so they can get in to take the seal. However, their attempt fails, and when Joey's wig falls off during a game of limbo, the jig is up. The gaffe is taken advantage of and they are put in jail by a former Lambda Tau Delta member who is now a cop, who actually cuffed Joey's left hand to Danny's right.

Back home, while she is teaching "patty-cake" to Michelle as she promised (via a pinky swear), D.J. gets a phone call from Danny at the jail, and tells her to send either Becky or his mother Claire to bail them out. But D.J. can't find either, so she gets Kimmy to come over to babysit her sisters while she heads to the Powell Street jail, and hears that the Lambda Tau Delta girls have voted to release Danny and Joey. While they both wait, the prisoners entertain them (see Trivia), which elicits applause from both guys (and the audience).

At home, Danny is grateful to Kimmy for coming over to babysit and teach Michelle "patty-cake" while D.J. was gone (which elicits audience applause), so he takes a week off of her banishment from the house. Of course, they're all surprised at his and Joey's return (see Quotes). The guys talk about the night's events, and even look at themselves in the mirror and laugh at themselves. Danny even remarks that Joey could be his equivalent to Kimmy.

Later that night, with both guys back in normal clothing, Jesse comes home from a bike ride in the woods and is not a happy camper, and he means that literally. He rode his bike into a swamp after he was spooked by a snake (or a snake-like twig, as he said). Then, he notices the pearl earring in Danny's ear, a sign of the night's events. He decides to go wash up (per Danny), saying that he has had a strange day (as Jeff Franklin's EP credit appears), though Danny's and Joey's may have been even stranger. And he heads off to do just that (as Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett's EP credits appear and the audience applauds).

Stephanie: Come on, Michelle. [She takes her sister by the hand, when something crosses her mind.] I just hugged Kimmy Gibbler. Dad and Joey are in dresses.

Michelle: What a day!

[Both younger girls head upstairs to get their shut-eye.]

Danny: Jesse, were you attacked by a wild animal?

Jesse: No. I got thrown off my bike. It got spooked by a snake. Well, actually, it was a snake-like twig.

Danny: Look, why don't you go get upstairs, take a bath.

Jesse: Danny?

Danny: Yeah?

Jesse: Is that a pearl earring you're wearing? [pauses] Is there anything you'd like to talk to me about?

Danny: You don't want to know.

Jesse: Oh, well. I'm going to go wash up. I've had kind of a strange day. Although yours might have been stranger.

Trivia

The last episode in which Lori Loughlin is not credited for the role of Rebecca

The "cup game", that Stephanie and D.J. play, and D.J. was about to teach Michelle, is recently known for being used with the song "When I'm Gone", popularized by singer-actress Anna Kendrick, in the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect